Aerial toy



A. B. MOURADIAN.

AERIAL TOY. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1921.

1,4 10,709. Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

UNETEQ STATESi AERIAL TOY.

Lemme.

Application filed September 19, 1921.

T0 a7Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BAPTIST MoUmmAN, a former citizen of Armenia, residing at Hamilton, in the county of Wentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Aerial Toy, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in childrens toys, in which three pinions on vertical axes are operated in conjunction with a rotating winding aerial propeller, all contained in a small metallic or wooden box; the object of my improvement is, to give children a very amusing and positively harmless toy for use in any kind of weather and working anywhere with great facility.

1 attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a wooden or metallic square box; Fig. 2 partial section of the entire toy with view of the propeller engaged with the winding gear.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the I several views.

The device comprises a casing or frame with front 1, sides 8, 3, and having an aperture 1 in the top, to receive the propeller spindle 5, which is operated by a winding mechanism and key 17, which through the pinionsl8, 19, 20 and 21 rotates an actuating shaft 22 the upper end of which is provided with a flattened clutch part or end. The spindle 5 is freely mounted in the fixed slotted tube 7 and is normally pressed upwardly by a spiral tension spring 6. The lower end of the spindle is slotted to be engaged by the flattened end of the actuator shaft when pressed down against the tension spring 0. The upper end of the key- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

Serial No. 501,806.

shaft is provided with a retaining-disk 16 provided with a releasing notch 26. The spring 6 surrounds the slotted tube 7 and has attached to its lower end a working part 9, to which is or trigger 10, having a disk engaging roller thereon.

In operating the device, the propellerspindle is engaged with the flattened clutchpart of the actuator-shaft, extending through the tube slot, and depressed until the spring-release latch 10 is engaged under the retaining disk 16.

To launch the flyer, the key is rapidly rotated by hand to the right, which through the actuator shaft rotates the spindle 5, and when the latch 10, registers with the disk notch 26, the rotating spindle 5 is released and launched in the air by the contraction of the spring 6.

I claim- 1. An aerial toy comprising a detachable bladed flying member, a launching tensionspring therefor; a manually operated mechanism comprising winding-gears secured to vertical actuator-shafts; a retaining-disk secured to the upper end of a key-shaft, for rotating and automatically releasing the flying-member; and a wooden or metallic casing containing said mechanism.

2. An aerial toy, comprising a detachable bladed flying member; a launching spring therefor, manually operated mechanism for rotating and automatically releasing the member, and a casing containing said mechanism.

ALEX. BAPTIST MOURADIAN.

Vitnesses APKAR. KALooeIAN, SHANNIS MELKENIAN.

pivoted a spring release latch- 

